News Archive - May 2013

Did you miss GlobusWORLD? It was a great event, with a wide range of attendees, and three days of tutorials, presentations, networking--and some flooding in suburban Chicago for good measure. For a nice overview of the topics and issues examined in-depth at GlobusWORLD, check out this post by Rob Mitchum, which first appeared on the Computation Institute blog.

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People who work in laboratories take a lot of things for granted. When they come into work in the morning, they expect the equipment to have power, the sink to produce hot and cold water, and the internet and e-mail to be functional. Because these routine services are taken care of “behind the scenes” by facilities and IT staff, scientists can get started right away on their research.

It is my pleasure to announce that we have selected Vadim Roytershteyn as the user of the month for May 2013.

Vadim is a plasma physicist at SciberQuest, Inc., where he uses large-scale simulations to study a variety of processes in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas. He primarily works with so-called fully kinetic simulations, which use computational particles to represent plasma species (such as electrons and ions). Such simulations are very attractive because they provide essentially first-principle description of plasma under fairly general conditions. At the same time, fully kinetic simulations generate a very large amount of data, which can be challenging to deal with.